Firebird 2.5 final migrated to #Debian unstable (sid)
Today Firebird 2.5 final packages is uploaded to the Debian testing repository
Soon it will be moved to Debian testing and Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Category: Tools & Products releases
Announcements of new Firebird related products, or new releases.
Firebird 2.1.4 RC1 landed in #debian sid unstable
Firebird 2.1.4 RC landed in debian sid .You can check the shortlog and the message from debian-devel-changes
Improving Firebird Support in Kevora (qt based db admin gui)
The Firebird support is being improved now in kevora. Despite there are no schemas in Firebird, we have defined two different artificial schemas (SYSTEM and PUBLIC) to organize the list of database objects. The figure below shows a list of tables and a window with its current session information.
#Debian 6.0 stable released with Firebird 2.1.3 included
After two years of squashing bugs Debian 6.0 Squeeze is released , in the new version Firebird 2.1.3 is included that is considered quite stable and supported for development if you don’t use the new features from 2.5. Here is the guide for installing it on Debian stable systems from official repository.
Video: Capture unauthorized access to data in Firebird 2.5
There is another video on the Trace API and FB TraceManager available. This video discusses how to capture unauthorized access to data in Firebird 2.5.
It’s available HERE.
Web.py #Python micro framework it does have support for Firebird
#Perl DBD::Firebird fork progress
DBD::Firebird is registered in perl cpan’s module list and soon we will upload the first tar.gz release (when is considered stable enough)
Until then the module is hosted in github and can be used and tested :
Stefan has improved the Windows support also fixed many tests , here are some of the commit messages:
Improved support for MinGW, added support for ActivePerl, Removed some obsolete tests, All tests, now use testlib.pl and Test::More (except 60leaks.t)
Firebird connection module for #NodeJS is in the works
I am trying to develop Firebird connection module for NodeJS (http://nodejs.org/).
https://github.com/xdenser/node-firebird-libfbclient
I want to implement firebird events feature as it suits very well to NodeJS ideology.
And have some questions regarding events.
How to capture NATURAL SCAN statements in Firebird 2.5
This is easily done with the new Firebird 2.5 Trace API in combination with Upscene’s FB TraceManager product.
A short demonstration video is available HERE.
Firebird Data Wizard 11.1 released
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SQL Maestro Group announces the release of Firebird Data Wizard 11.1, a powerful Windows GUI utility for Firebird data management. |
Firebird Data Wizard provides you with a number of easy-to-use wizards to convert any ADO-compatible database to the Firebird database, import data into
Firebird tables, export data from tables, views and queries to most popular file formats as well as generate data-driven ASP.NET pages for your Firebird database.
New version provides data import from any database accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider, the insert-or-update data import mode, advanced Data Pump abilities, and some other new features.
There are also other useful things as well as versions for other DBMS (MySQL, Oracle, SQL Server, DB2, PostgreSQL, etc). Read full press release.